Tag: human rights violations
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Texas County Jails and the Hidden System of Pre-Trial Torture
Texas County Jails and the Hidden System of Pre-Trial Torture By LeRoy NellisAustin, Texas What’s happening inside Texas county jails is not a series of isolated abuses.It is a system. Over the past two decades, Texas county jails have quietly transformed from short-term holding facilities into coercive pressure chambers for people who have not been…
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Systemic Harm in Williamson County Jail
🧱 Scene: The Procession I had passed an independent psychological exam just two weeks earlier. Cleared. Stable. Fit to engage. But inside Williamson County Jail, that meant nothing. Because if they can’t make you crazy, they’ll drive you crazy. That’s the logic. That’s the ritual. I was on the fourth floor, wearing a smok—a suicide…
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Williamson County’s Sheriff’s Office doesn’t believe in Religion… They stuck me in this chair for not giving up my Bible…
🧱 Scene: The Procession — Punished for a Bible This was not a mental health intervention. This was not safety. This was not medical care. I was placed into a restraint chair because I refused to surrender my Bible. Two weeks earlier, I had passed an independent forensic psychological examination. I was found competent, stable,…
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Oversight Without Accountability: Systemic Corruption and Human Rights Violations in Texas County Jails
Oversight Without Accountability: Systemic Corruption and Human Rights Violations in Texas County Jails By LeRoy NellisAustin, Texas Executive takeaway: Texas county jails operate inside a compliance theater—lots of forms, zero consequences. Oversight exists on paper. Accountability does not. The result is a closed-loop system that monetizes detention, externalizes harm, and neutralizes complaints through procedure instead…
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Williamson County Sheriff’s Office and NCIC/Securus Torture – Detail Timeline
Notice Regarding Live Record, Ongoing Interference, and Continuous Updates This publication constitutes a live evidentiary record. The contents of this site reflect information that has been subject to unauthorized access, alteration, suppression, and interference over time. As a result, material may be added, corrected, restored, or updated on a rolling basis as records are recovered,…
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Texas county jail pre-trial detention murder cover-up
Evidence image — Texas county jail pre-trial detention conditions and cover-up allegations. How Texas County Jails Are Covering Up Murder Before Trial Medical Neglect, Solitary Confinement, and the Paperwork That Makes Death “Natural” Texas Is Killing People Who Haven’t Been Convicted Texas county jails are not merely failing people awaiting trial. They are killing them—quietly,…
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Williamson County Jail Took My Bible — Then Put Me in a Restraint Chair for 2.5 Hours
This is not a misunderstanding. This is retaliation. The restraint chair — a mechanical control device used in jails. I was strapped into one like this for approximately 2.5 hours for refusing to surrender my Bible. While detained at Williamson County Jail, the jail staff confiscated my Bible and then escalated to physical punishment when…
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SUMMARY — WILLIAMSON COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE RESPONSE (PIA ID# 40621)
google-site-verification: google76036a55c413189b.html Your SEO optimized title page contents Date: October 27, 2025 From: Katie Lentz, Open Records Coordinator, Williamson County Sheriff’s Office To: Texas Attorney General, Open Records Division Subject: Request for Ruling on Disclosure — PIA ID# 40621 Complainant/Requestor: LeRoy Nellis II
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Texas Media Outlets that have reported on Pre-Trial Jail corruption
📰 Texas News Outlets Covering Jail Corruption, Criminal Justice & Oversight Texas Jail Corruption – Verified Media & Oversight Resources Looking to report jail corruption, human rights violations, or systemic abuse in Texas county facilities? Below is a curated list of high-impact Texas media outlets and investigative reporters who focus on law enforcement oversight, inmate…
